Clarkson and others always ask the question, ‘where does the electricity come from?’
There are other stats that say it’s only better after a certain amount of miles driven or that the Lithium quarries produce significant amount of pollution.
What and where do these claims come from, how true are they and how false are they?
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EVs are greener. Not as greener as you might think because of the embodied carbon, but definitely greener. There definitely is a bit of a “payoff” point though where upfront an EV might be worse than a normal Prius hybrid, but the EV wins convincingly over typical ownership durations.
What this means in terms of climate change, not only do we need cars to switch over to EVs, but because EVs still mean a chunk of carbon, we still need fewer cars overall.
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